You Only Live Once (1937)




Sylvia Sidney - You Only Live Once




The public defender's secretary and an ex-convict get married and try to make a life together, but a series of disasters sends their lives spiraling out of control.


Film programs

Illustrierte Film Bühne nr. 1093

Books with substantial mentioning of You Only Live Once

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Lloyd Hughes
The Rough Guide to Gangster Movies
London, 2005

Tom Gunning
The films of Fritz Lang, Allegories of vision and modernity
London, 2000

James Robert Parish
Prison Pictures from Hollywood, Plots, Critiques, Casts and Credits for 293 Theatrical and Made-for-Television Releases
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 1991

Tony Thomas
The Complete Films of Henry Fonda
Secaucus, NJ, 1983

Books with an entry on You Only Live Once

Larry Langman and Daniel Finn
A Guide to American Crime Films of the Thirties
Westport, Connecticut - London, 1995

Articles on You Only Live Once

Nick Smedley, Fritz Lang's trilogy: the rise and fall of a European social commentator, in: Film History, vol. 5, 1993 pp. 1-21

Articles with substantial mentioning of You Only Live Once

Alain Silver and Robert Porfirio, Fritz Lang (1890-1976), in: Robert Porfirio, Alain Silver and James Ursini (eds.), Film noir reader 3, New York, 2002